Future of Business with Game Changers, Presented by SAP

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July 28th 2016:The Future of Business: The Future of Designing Innovation

The buzz: Faster, driver! The pace of innovation is perpetual acceleration. New ideas, products and services are brought to market faster than ever, and life cycles are shorter. As consumers demand more speed and simplicity, average as well as best in class businesses, and entrepreneurs, are leapfrogging each other daily to capture market share. Who will survive? Successful companies are internally organizing, designing and implementing programs and processes to keep up with - and get ahead of - ever-shrinking innovation cycles. Ready to learn how?
The experts speak. Jeremy C. Thomas, Carom

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Jeremy C. Thomas

Leveraging his experience with design thinking, business model and value proposition design, Jeremy C. Thomas, Founder and Chief Catalyst at Carom, works with companies large and small to push the boundaries by challenging conventions and traditions, to step off of expected paths away from methodologies that mire companies in old ways of thinking. He is involved in his own projects as Carom, as well as working with SAP to drive Envision workshops. He believes it's important to embrace the philosophy of innovation, not just a methodology of innovation, to ensure we are present in every moment to recognize opportunities to create the most value for the most people.

Jennifer Ford

Jennifer Ford is the Executive Director for the N. American Presales Design Thinking Team at SAP. She has been a creative and engaged SAP colleague for 12 years in various Market Units within N. America working with industries including Industrial Manufacturing & Components, Automotive, Consumer Packaged Goods, Wholesale & Distribution, Mining, Public Sector, Utilities and Higher Education. SAP uses Design Thinking internally and has for the last decade. Through various iterations of the different techniques, we began working with our customers on the methodology and mindset approximately three years ago and Jennifer was an early adopter and practitioner. Prior to SAP, she was with JD Edwa

Charlotte Bui

Charlotte Bui is the head of the Global Design Thinking team at SAP within the office of the CEO. The global team brings a design thinking mindset and methodology to customer sessions in all regions focusing on their needs. With her team, Charlotte oversees the management and creation of tools and techniques and provides training and communications for customer facing employees. Charlotte is also a Design Thinking practitioner using hands on experiences to expand and evolve the approach and to help SAP customers re-imagine new possibilities for their future. As design thinking includes visual and creative skills, Charlotte manages a shared service of design experts to generate powerful